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High o'er the changing scene as thus he gazed	A
The indulgent Power his arm sublimely raised	A
When round the realms superior lustre flew	B
And call'd new wonders to the hero's view	B
He saw at once as far as eye could rove	C
Like scattering herds the swarthy people move	D
In tribes innumerable all the waste	E
Beneath their steps a varying shadow cast	F
As airy shapes beneath the moon's pale eye	G
When broken clouds sail o'er the curtain'd sky	G
Spread thro' the grove and flit along the glade	H
And cast their grisly phantoms thro' the shade	H
So move the hordes in thickers half conceal'd	I
Or vagrant stalking o'er the open field	I
Here ever restless tribes despising home	J
O'er shadowy streams and trackless deserts roam	J
While others there thro' downs and hamlets stray	K
And rising domes a happier state display	K
The painted chiefs in death's grim terrors drest	I
Rise fierce to war and beat the savage breast	I
Dark round their steps collecting warriors pour	L
And dire revenge begins the hideous roar	L
While to the realms around the signal flies	M
And tribes on tribes in dread disorder rise	M
Track the mute foe and scour the distant wood	I
Wide as a storm and dreadful as a flood	I
Now deep in groves the silent ambush lay	K
Or wing the flight or sweep the prize away	K
Unconscious babes and reverend sires devour	N
Drink the warm blood and paint their cheeks with gore	L
While all their mazy movements fill the view	B
Where'er they turn his eager eyes pursue	B
He saw the same dire visage thro' the whole	O
And mark'd the same fierce savageness of soul	O
In doubt he stood with anxious thoughts oppress'd	I
And thus his wavering mind the Power address'd	I
Say from what source O Voice of wisdom sprung	P
The countless tribes of this amazing throng	Q
Where human frames and brutal souls combine	R
No force can tame them and no arts refine	R
Can these be fashion'd on the social plan	S
Or boast a lineage with the race of man	S
In yon fair isle when first my wandering view	B
Ranged the glad coast and met the savage crew	B
A timorous herd like harmless roes they ran	S
Hail'd us as Gods from whom their race began	S
Supply'd our various wants relieved our toil	T
And oped the unbounded treasures of their isle	U
But when their fears allay'd in us they trace	V
The well known image of a mortal race	V
When Spanish blood their wondering eyes beheld	I
Returning rage their changing bosoms swell'd	I
Their jaws the crimson dainty long'd to taste	I
And spread with foreign flesh the rich repast	I
My homeward sail far distant on the main	W
Incautious left a small unguarded train	W
When in their horrid power bereft of aid	I
That train with thee O lost Arada bled	I
No faith no treaty calms their maddening flame	X
Rage all their joy and slaughter all their aim	X
How the dread savage bands with fury burn'd	I
When o'er the wave our growing host return'd	I
Now mild with joy a friendly smile they show'd	I
And now their dark red visage frown'd in blood	I
Till call'd afar from all the circling shore	L
Swift thro' the groves the yelling squadrons pour	L
The wide wings stretching sweep the unbounded plain	W
That groans beneath the innumerable train	W
Our scanty files ascending o'er the strand	I
Tread the bold champaign and the fight demand	I
With steeds and hounds the dreadful onset moves	Y
And thundering batteries rend the distant groves	Z
Swift fly the scattering foes like shades of night	I
When orient splendors urge their rapid flight	I
Our proffer'd friendship bade the discord cease	A2
Spared the grim host and gave the terms of peace	A2
The arts of civil life we strove to lend	I
Their lands to culture and their joys extend	I
Sublime their views fair virtue's charms display	K
And point their passage to eternal day	K
Still proud to rove our offers they disdain	W
Insult our friendship and our rites prophane	W
In that blest island still the myriads rest	I
Bask in the sunshine wander with the beast	I
Feed on the foe or from the victor fly	G
Rise into life exhaust their rage and die	G
Tell then my Seer from what dire sons of earth	B2
The brutal people drew their ancient birth	B2
Whether in realms the western heavens that close	C2
A tribe distinct from other nations rose	D2
Born to subjection when in happier time	E2
A nobler race should hail their fruitful clime	E2
Or if a common source all nations claim	E2
Their lineage form and reasoning powers the same	E2
What sovereign cause in secret wisdom laid	I
This wonderous change in God's own work has made	I
Why various powers of soul and tints of face	V
In different climes diversify the race	V
To whom the Guide Unnumber'd causes lie	G
In earth and sea and round the varying sky	G
That fire the soul or damp the genial flame	E2
And work their wonders on the human frame	E2
See beauty form and colour change with place	V
Here charms of health the blooming visage grace	V
There pale diseases float in every wind	I
Deform the figure and degrade the mind	I
From earth's own elements thy race at first	I
Rose into life the children of the dust	I
These kindred elements by various use	F2
Nourish the growth and every change produce	F2
Pervade the pores awake the infant bloom	E2
Lead life along and ope the certain tomb	E2
In each ascending stage the man sustain	W
His breath his food his physic and his bane	W
In due proportions where these virtues lie	G
A perfect form their equal aids supply	G
And while unchanged the efficient causes reign	W
Age following age the unvaried race maintain	W
But where crude elements distemper'd rise	M
And cast their sickening vapours round the skies	M
Unlike that harmony of human frame	E2
Where God's first works and nature's were the same	E2
The unconscious tribes attempering to the clime	E2
Still vary downward with the years of time	E2
Till fix'd at last their characters abide	I
And local likeness feeds their local pride	I
The soul too varying with the changing clime	E2
Feeble or fierce or groveling or sublime	E2
Forms with the body to a kindred plan	W
And lives the same a nation or a man	W
Yet think not clime alone or height of poles	G2
On every shore the springs of life controuls	G2
A different cast the glowing zone demands	G2
In Paria's blooms from Tombut's burning sands	G2
Internal causes thro' the earth and skies	G2
Blow in the breeze or on the mountain rise	G2
Thro' air and ocean with their changes run	W
Breathe from the ground or circle with the fun	W
Where these long shores their boundless regions spread	I
See the same form all different tribes pervade	I
Thro' all alike the fertile forests bloom	E2
And all uncultured shed a solemn gloom	E2
Thro' all great nature's boldest features rise	G2
Sink into vales and tower amid the skies	G2
Streams darkly winding stretch a broader sway	K
The groves and mountains bolder walks display	K
A dread sublimity informs the whole	O
And wakes a dread sublimity of soul	O
Yet time and art shall other changes find	I
And open still and vary still the mind	I
The countless swarms that tread these dank abodes	G2
Who glean spontaneous fruits and range the woods	G2
Fix'd here for ages in their swarthy face	G2
Display the wild complexion of the place	G2
Yet when their tribes to happy nations rise	G2
And earth by culture warms the genial skies	G2
A fairer tint and more majestic grace	G2
Shall flush their features and exalt the race	G2
While milder arts with social joys refined	I
Inspire new beauties in the growing mind	I
Thy followers too fair Europe's noblest pride	I
When future gales shall wing them o'er the tide	I
A ruddier hue and deeper shade shall gain	W
And stalk in statelier figures o'er the plain	W
While nature's grandeur lifts the eye abroad	I
O'er these dread footsteps of the forming God	I
Wing'd on a wider glance the venturous soul	O
Bids greater powers and bolder thoughts unroll	O
The sage the chief the patriot unconfined	I
Shield the weak world and counsel for mankind	I
But think not thou in all the race of man	W
That different pairs in different climes began	W
Or tribes distinct by signal marks confest	I
Were born to serve or subjugate the rest	I
The hero heard But say celestial Guide	I
Who led the wanderers o'er the b	H2

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